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Mark Twain's Helpful Hints for Good Living

De: Lin Salamo - editor, Victor Fischer - editor, Michael B. Frank - editor, Mark Twain
Narrado por: Grover Gardner
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Resumen del Editor

Irreverent, charming, and eminently quotable, this handbook - an eccentric etiquette guide for the human race - contains 69 aphorisms, anecdotes, whimsical suggestions, maxims, and cautionary tales from Mark Twain’s private and published writings. It dispenses advice and reflections on family life and public manners; opinions on topics such as dress, health, food, and childrearing and safety; and more specialized tips, such as those for dealing with annoying salesmen and burglars.

Culled from Twain’s personal letters, autobiographical writings, speeches, novels, and sketches, these pieces are delightfully fresh, witty, startlingly relevant, and bursting with Twain’s characteristic ebullience for life. They also remind us exactly how Mark Twain came to be the most distinctive and well-known American literary voice in the world. These texts, some of them new or out of print for decades, have been selected and meticulously prepared by the editors at the Mark Twain Project.

©1991 1997, and 2001 by Richard A. Watson and JP Morgan Chase Bank as Trustees of the Mark Twain Foundation. 2004 by the Regents of the University of California (P)2012 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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“This wonderful book illustrates precisely why we can never have enough Twain. His humor is timeless, his wisdom about all things without equal.” (Ken Burns, American director and producer)
“This is a masterfully edited compendium that does Twain proud. It captures the note-taking, aphorism-creating, angry-letter-writing essence of Twain’s brain in a way essential, I think, to understanding the man, and by extension, the history of the United States and the nature of life on Earth.” (Dave Eggers)
“This book is a delightful read all the way through.” ( San Francisco Chronicle)

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A real hoot!

From now on, whenever the damned human race drives me crazy, this the book I'll be reaching for.
These here Mark Twain scholars have put together a delightful collection of anecdotes, stories, wit, and wisdom from the pen of the man himself. No one else could have written this stuff. It's funny, irreverent, insightful, and cantankerous. Real fun.
Plus, they got Grover Gardner to read it, and ya' can't do better than that.

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Entertaining Listen

Where does Mark Twain's Helpful Hints for Good Living rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

This collection of Mark Twain reflections is entertainment to have available to listen to while traveling or with friends. In this way it is quite different from the novels and non-fiction that I usually listen to.

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A selection of Twain's writings

I enjoyed the narrator more than the selections from Twain's speeches and other writings. None of the pieces were from his celebrated fiction but they did all have his distinctive voice.

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Fun collection of Twain short stories

Grover Gardner does a great job narrating Mark Twain. enjoy the short clips of Twain experiences. very enjoyable and a quick short fun listen. many of the stories are found in other books.

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Twain First! The Rest--nowhere!

This book is a fun, miscellaneous, selection of Twain's writings (a reply to a utility company is even more fun than Tom Sawyer--although perhaps I to grow older & cheerfully more cantankerous). Further, the excellent narrator conveys Twain's scathing wit, & pithy spirit, without overpowering the author .
I think the Washoe Giant would be pleased.

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So much fun

Truly I am sad that my generation missed out on experiencing mark twain in the flesh. Such a character! this book is filled with multiple short stories and humorous adventures of Samuel Clemens. After listening to so many Mark Twain books narrated by Grover Gardner, to me he is Mark Twain and it will be difficult for me to move on with another narrator.

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It's more Twain. That's a good thing.

I got a good laugh from these selections...and wanted more. It's a quick listen and if you are already familiar with Twain then it's a no-brainer, as you know what you're getting. Indispensably quotable and just a good time. I wish I could put his words to my tongue and speak like him because his work is just as relevant and important in today's society just as it was then.

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Anything Mark Twain

Anything Mark Twain writes is gold. This collection of snippets was thoroughly enjoyable. And I enjoyed the performance 👍

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Pleasantly Surprised

Twain was a remarkable writer. Fantastic writing and humor! This was a quick and uplifting listen!

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LOLL (laugh out loud, literally!)

Dead over a hundred years and his writing still amazes, both for his mastery and humor, and for his relevance. Doesn't matter which of his works I'm reading, that is always what I come away with. Absolute awe.
For this collection, I'm actually having trouble recalling the individual pieces (but it's early and I haven't had my coffee yet), but I do remember having to explain myself for literally laughing out loud on more than one occasion. For both my colleagues at work and for my fellow diners (and for most American's, come to think of it), one word of explanation is usually enough:

"Twain."

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